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Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Air Peace, Allen Onyema, has denied nursing presidential ambition. He stated this while responding to an online poster by a group -United People of Nigeria Initiative (UPNI) endorsing him for presidency in 2023. He ...

The Young Medical Laboratory Scientists Forum (YMLSF) has urged Nigerians to obey social distancing order and other advice from health authorities to enable the nation and the rest of the world to defeat the coronavirus. In a statement issued by ...

Management of the Nigerian Petroleum Development Company (NPDC) in collaboration with ND Western has declared that its priority at the moment is to help its personnel and Nigerian survive the coronavirus pandemic. Manager, Government Relations, Community and Security, NPDC/NDW OML ...

Director General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Dr. Chikwe Ihekweazu, has advised Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodinma, to create a facility for testing of patients to ensure that the state is free of coronavirus. Ihekweazu gave the ...

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has given the Federal Government and the National Assembly 14 days to reverse the proposed cut of N26.51b in basic healthcare budget due to COVID-19 pandemic. In separate letters to the presidency and ...

An elder statesman, Buba Galadima, has cautioned that Nigerians will revolt if the Federal Government does not equitably distribute palliatives to the poor and vulnerable during the lockdown. Government officials have been accused of diverting the palliatives from donations of ...

The Imo State government has fished out 1,000 ghost workers in its public service. Briefing journalists after rising from a meeting between Governor Hope Uzodinma and heads of ministries, departments and agencies at the weekend in Owerri, the Commissioner for ...

Katsina State Governor, Aminu Masari, has expressed “profound sadness” over the passage of the former presidential aided. In a statement by his Director General, Media, Abdu Labaran, the governor said with Kyari’s demise, the nation had lost a great patriot. ...

Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, has described the late Abba Kyari, who passed on at the weekend in Lagos after a battle with the novel coronavirus, as a man who fostered mutual respect and understanding between the legislature and the executive ...

Bauchi State Government has announced that 19 people have lost their lives to Lassa fever in the state. The Deputy Governor and Chairman of the state’s Taskforce on Disease Control, Baba Tela, disclosed this to newsmen yesterday. He explained that ...